As for the music of the 80s – I’d say it was much better than majority of today’s “radio friendly” stuff… What we had then? We had Paul Young, we had Duran Duran (yes, I admit, I’m a fan), we had Level 42, we had Toto! And now? Barbies singing through vocoders and heavy use of autotune. Don’t tell me it’s better than those “plastic” 80s…

How can you lump all of the 80’s together? There was so much to love about music in the 80’s even if you don’t love the pop stuff (Michael Jackson or Peter Gabriel?) – the proliferation of the hardcore and general indie movements, the mass splintering of the metal genre (thrash-, speed-, funk-, industrial-metal, etc.), the birth of hip-hop, and plenty of great alternative and avantgarde music, all while laying all the ground work necessary for most of the great albums of the 90s to be possible! I need to pick on people who say the 80’s sucked as much as I do the people that say music today sucks. There’s always great music out there. ALWAYS! Fantastic website, anyway! :)

Well, Chris… I lived through it ;) Seriously though, you’re right, there has to be something. But as I sit here, I’m trying hard to remember an album or song I love from that decade. There has to be one… but my brain can’t seem to remember any. I think the overuse of electronic instruments is what bothers me more than anything else.

Great bass part although for me, personally, I don’t care for the tone that Pino is using, but it does fit the era. On the other hand that sound, that distinctive, airy fretless tone works perfectly in Don Henley’s “In a New York Minute.”